No holier privilege is given to one human soul than that of whispering its secret into the ears of another who has not yet attained the wisdom which comes only by living.

God be merciful to the parent who is anxious about the mental culture of his child and never tells him of the deeper possibilities of his life, or never repeats to him the messages which he has heard in silent and lonely hours.  The growth of a soul in the knowledge of God may be measured by the intensity of its desire to help other souls to the same knowledge.

What will the re-awakened soul do?  It will be as individual and distinctive in its action as before.  The divine life in the souls of men manifests itself in ways as various and numerous as solar energy is manifested in nature.  Variety in unity is the law of the spirit.  Every person will be led to do those things, to hold those beliefs, and to minister in the ways for which he has been prepared.

The experience of one can never be made the model for another, and the message which the Spirit speaks in the ears of one may never be spoken in the ears of another.  Uniformity is neither to be expected nor to be desired.  The soul which realizes that it belongs to God will choose to live for Him, and in its own way will forever move toward Him.  Henceforward His will will be its law.  This is all we know and all we need to know.

THE PLACE OF JESUS CHRIST

    I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ
    Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee
    All questions in the earth and out of it,
    And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

    —­A Death in the Desert. Browning.

    ’Tis the weakness in strength that I cry for! my flesh that I seek
    In the God-head!  I seek and I find it.  O Saul, it shall be
    A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me,
    Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever:  a Hand like this hand
    Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee!  See the Christ stand!

    —­Saul. Browning.

VII

THE PLACE OF JESUS CHRIST

In the ascent of the soul do light and power come to its assistance from outside and from above?  Is evolution alone a sufficient guarantee that it will some time reach its goal?  These are not so much questions of theory as of fact, and as such will be treated in this chapter.

Light and power have come to the race in its struggles upward from one source as from no other.  In history one figure appears colossal and unique.  Whether we classify Jesus Christ with men, or regard Him as a special divine manifestation is of little consequence in our inquiry.  If He is the consummate flower of the evolutionary process, then, because of some unexplained influence, that process reached a degree